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Have you checked to see if there is a bios update for your old system? While it's unlikely such update (if it exists) would allow your bios to detect the entire disk capacity, it might improve detection to about 80 mb or so...

Beyond that, the only other option that I can think of would be to install a pci type ata/sata controller card and connect your hard drive to that. However this means that you will have to rely entirely on software tools to format the drive, as it will not be properly detected in the bios setup.

Hope this helps,
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First the bad news:
We can't patch/update Bios for native support of HDD over 128/137GB.

But the good news: If your Bios won't provide 48 Bit LBA support for drives
above 128/137GB then you have additional options:
W2K SP4, WinXP SP1, Linux -You won't need native Bios support if you have
Windows2000 SP4, Windows XP SP1 or Linux with a somewhat recent kernel
(2.4.18 upwards). Install your OS into a partition within Bios limits and
allocate space above Bios limits within the OS.

Once I do the bios upgrade, i will need some way to increase sdb1 from 8GB to the whole 160GB on the drive. I am using antiX 13.1 core-libre, what would be the command to do the resize?_________________Copyrights and Patents aren't real kinds of property. Copyright Nazis brainwash you to believe they exist so they can chill free speech, innovation, and creativity. Good people DON'T believe that Copyright exists!

Once I do the bios upgrade, i will need some way to increase sdb1 from 8GB to the whole 160GB on the drive. I am using antiX 13.1 core-libre, what would be the command to do the resize?

If your bios upgrade is successful, then you shouldn't have to resize the hard drive because the bios is now able to detect all of the data concerning the hard drive geometry... therefore it should properly recognize the disk capacity.

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After a whole week being out of the house, i tuned on the computer and apparently antiX had been able to recognize the 160GB drive (not my BIOS still, but that is ok). I remember a week ago when I last turned it only 8GB was recognized by both the BIOS and antiX, but now I had ran...

Code:

cfdisk /dev/sdb

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